Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/MC MasterChef


 * The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a successful request for adminship. Please do not modify it.

MC MasterChef
Final (42/0/0) ended 18:27 November 8 2005 (UTC)

– I saw MC MasterChef today when I was doing RC patrol. He is removing vandalism like no one's business. If you look at his contributions, you can see that he is really active in fighting vandalism. I fully expected him to block User:Justinting after he had vandalised Law & Order four times in the same day, but when he didn't, I blocked Justinting myself, and later realised MC MasterChef wasn't an admin. Now I wish that he was made an admin so he could revert vandalism faster and block vandals himself. &mdash; J I P | Talk 18:27, 1 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: Thank you very much, I accept. — MC MasterChef  ::  Leave a tip — 08:33, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) Extreme nominator support. &mdash; J I P  | Talk 18:27, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Strong Support Good vandal fighter --JAranda &#124; watz sup 08:40, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Support at a cheery -27C. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 08:51, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 4)  Martin  10:48, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Support I think MC was born to slay wiki vandals! Well-rounded contrib's. Marskell 13:21, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Strongish support Good at remvoing vandalism, could be on a little more often when I am but certain user is on the rest of the time. -- &#9786; A dam1213&#9786;  Talk+|WWW 13:53, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Totally. --Merovingian (t) (c) (e) 15:06, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Strong Support - perfect candidate. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 15:13 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) Support Privat  e   Butcher  19:37, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Support --pgk( talk ) 19:39, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) Support. Seems to be an excellent editor. &mdash;Morven 20:47, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) Support. We need more vandal fighters. Carioca 21:16, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 13) Support, per everyone else. I love his username, too.--Sean|Bla ck 22:52, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 14) Support like it's nobody's business. I agree with Sean Black, awesome username. -User:Mys e kurity|Mysekurity ]] additions | e-mail]]23:53, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 15) support GraemeL (talk) 00:17, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 16) Strong Support! All hail masterchef!, scourge of the wikivandals. Rex071404 216.153.214.94  00:28, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 17) Support! In addition to being a top-notch vandal-fighter, this guy truly understands how WP works; his Speedy tags are right on the money, and I've even seen him clean up after admins... The sooner we give him the mop and the shotgun, the safer we can all sleep at night. Owen&times;  &#9742;  00:40, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 18) Support per above. --Briangotts (talk) 01:03, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 19)  Or an   e    (t)   (c)   (@)  01:09, 3 November 2005 (UTC
 * 20) -- ( drini's vandalproof page  &#x260E;  ) 03:08, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 21) Support. The Minist   e   r of War  (Peace) 07:24, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 22) Support! --JoanneB 07:27, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 23) Support lower edit count than I'd actually like, but he certainly seems to know what adminship entails. Please spend a little more time creating articles in the future.  ALKIVAR &trade;Radioactivity symbol.png 08:47, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 24) Support, please give the Chef the mop. &asymp; jossi fresco &asymp; t &bull; @ 11:56, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 25) Strong Support A valuable member of the Wikiworld already doktorb 16:13, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 26) Support - I trust him. --Cel e stianpower háblame 18:41, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 27) Support - See him around a lot. Fir  e  Fo  x  19:27, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 28) Support. Keep the the good work. --Briangotts (talk) 04:09, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 29) Support. MasterChef beats me to a lot of vandalism reversion without use of the rollback button. a ndroid 79  14:18, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 30) Cool. JuntungWu 04:33, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 31) Support, another good vandal-whacker. Tito xd (?!?) 05:20, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 32) Good work. --Yodakii 14:56, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 33) Support - Nevica 21:57, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 34) Support. You're good people. - RoyBoy 800 23:51, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 35) supportive gesture DS 00:29, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 36) Support, great fighter for wikitegrity. - C HAIRBOY (☎) 04:26, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 37) Support, looks ready to be trusted w/admin tools; great editor. -- M P er el ( talk 07:30, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 38) Support. No reason to believe he will abuse admin tools. Jayjg (talk) 22:27, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 39) Support. Lately whenever I go to clean up vandalism, I find that MCMC has beaten me to it, or had reverted previous vandalism. An overall "good guy" --Bachrach44 01:43, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 40) Support --VileRage ( Talk | Cont ) 05:51, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 41) Support. One of the best RC patrollers I've ever encountered.   [ +t, +c, +m,  +e  ] 10:37, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 42) Support. I'm always happy to see RC patrollers. Linuxbeak | Talk 19:18, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral
 * 1) Good work, but maybe a little too quick on the revert button?  --Yodakii 05:17, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmm, that appears to be a pretty clear error on my part. Not sure what happened; I think I may have been trying to revert an earlier version and missed that it had already been fixed by Jossifresco, when Perle snuck in just before me? In any case I've corrected it now, and will try and exercise greater care in the future. Thanks, — MC MasterChef  ::  Leave a tip — 13:32, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Comments
 * A chart showing this user's edits along with a total # of edits line and average edits per day line is available here: Image:MCMasterChef-edits.png. I offer this not as a more refined version of editcountitis, but as just one tool to help evaluate an admin nominee with a somewhat low edit count on Wikipedia. --Durin 14:06, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Use of edit summaries is 79%, 89% over last 200 edits. Average edits per day is 6 per day, 18 per day over last 60 days. --Durin 14:06, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
 * 1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? (Please read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)
 * A. As JIP suggested, with the help of the CVU's IRC bot, I usually do a concerted stint of vandalism patrol at least every few days, so having the ability to enforce blocks and revert pages more easily would certainly be appreciated, as would the ability to delete speediable pages, rather than tagging them for someone else to follow up on. I don't spend a lot of time on WP:AFD, but would be willing to assist with backlogs there if need be. I'm open to suggestions, but otherwise I expect I would continue my usual editing patterns.


 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. While I think vandalism patrol is an important part of maintaining the encyclopedia, I get much more satisfaction from my editing contributions. These tend to be in the area of international relations (my major in college); current events are fairly well covered by other editors so I try and work on expanding less high-profile (though no less interesting) concepts and topics (for example power projection or the Fragrant Concubine).
 * I also enjoy reorganizing and cleaning up pages, and so am rather pleased with my contributions to National Intelligence Service (South Korea) (undertaken as part of my membership with the Cleanup Taskforce, I expanded as best I could on a topic previously unknown to me) and the expansion and merging of Rentier state with Resource curse.
 * My current top project is the expansion of Civilian control of the military, which, while a work in progress, is progressing fairly well and which I hope to one day submit to WP:FAC. I was initially drawn to Wikipedia after completing a report on the Uyghurs; some of my sources for my research are currently on their way to me in my new home by mail, so I hope to contribute more articles like First East Turkestan Republic when they arrive.


 * 3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
 * A. I think I try to be measured and polite in my interactions with other users, so I'm not aware of any outstanding conflicts. Generally when in doubt, I use the talk page first. I try to avoid the onset of any bunker mentality by pacing myself on vandalism patrol. I enjoy contributing to Wikipedia, and don't find it to be a source of stress.


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